Literature list

A literature list based on subject.

Politics

Anarchism

  • Bookchin, M. (1982). The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy.

Democratic Modernity

  • Öcalan, A. (2010). War and Peace in Kurdistan.
  • Öcalan, A. (2022). Beyond state, power, and violence.

Psychology

  • Price, D., PhD. (2024). Unlearning shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power.

Religion

Islam

Ex-muslims, questioning faith and apostasy

  • Lang, J. (2004). Losing my religion: A Call for Help.
  • Verbond van Ex-moslims. (2024). Manifesto of the League of Ex-muslims.

Progressive Islam

  • Duderija, A. (2017). The imperatives of progressive Islam.

Islamic modernism

  • Abduh, M. (1966). The theology of unity.
  • Khalid, A. (1999). The politics of Muslim cultural reform: Jadidism in Central Asia.

Islam, gender and sexuality

  • Advocates for Youth. (2018) I Am Muslim And I Might Not Be Straight: A Resource For Lgbtq+ Muslim Youth.
  • Atshan, S. (2020). Queer Palestine and the Empire of critique.
  • Calderini, S. (2020). Women as imams: Classical Islamic Sources and Modern Debates on Leading Prayer.
  • De Sondy, A. (2013). The crisis of Islamic masculinities.
  • Dibi, T. (2015). Djinn.
  • Eltahawy, M. (2015). Headscarves and hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.
  • H, L. (2023). Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir.
  • Jagiella, L. (2021). Among the eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey.
  • Khalid, M. (2020). Queer Muslim Futures: A Collection of Visions, Utopias and Dreams.
  • Kugle, S. S. A. (2010). Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims.
  • Myrne, P. (2019). Female sexuality in the early medieval Islamic world: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature.
  • MUQTI. (2021). Love Notes from the Holy Month.
  • Ozyegin, P. G. (2015). Gender and sexuality in Muslim cultures.
  • Savci, E. (2020). Queer in translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam.
  • Shaikh, S. (2012). Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn ’Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality.
  • Thobani, S. (2020). Contesting Islam, constructing race and sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West.

Know your enemy

Religious reactionism

  • Qutb, S. (1985). In the Shade of the Qur’an.